Posted on 03/07/2021 10:33:23 PM PST by conservative98
The CDC has admitted face masks do little to prevent the spread of COVID-19 amid mounting pressure to lift mask mandates across the U.S. In a new study, the CDC found face masks had a negligible impact on coronavirus numbers that didn’t exceed statistical margins of error.
The study found that between March and December 2020, face mask orders reduced infection rates by 1.5 percent over the rolling periods of two months each. The masks were 0.5 percent effective in the first 20 days of the mandates and less than 2 percent effective after 100 days.
The CDC added it still recommends wearing face masks, although it admitted such mandates do not make any statistical difference. In the meantime, some states across the nation have slowly returned to normalcy by putting an end to mask mandates.
(Excerpt) Read more at oann.com ...
No Damn Kidding! People with a functioning brain cell have known this for a year. Thanks, lightman - wish anybody ever saw the little truth that gets out.
Of the people I know who got Covid, they were the most, and continue to be the most paranoid about masks, gloves, face shield, etc.
What happened to "follow the science"?
No Shiite.
I’m about ready to lose my only US income cuz of the effing mask mansard (I won’t go back to the classroom with the current mask, face shield and gloves mandate). Singapore income can’t be declared (no W2 or 1099)
I’ll get more on California unemployment anyways until September...
Mandate = mansard
For real SCIENCE see post #8
Double and triple mask wearing incoming...../s
Even during surgery masks do nothing.
I bet the skin cracking hand sanitizers don’t do you any good either.
Viruses love skin cracks. Especially the kind that make warts.
It is past my bedtime, so I am at a 95+ probability of getting some of this wrong. I think these are the paragraphs in the study where they get to the point:
During March 1–December 31, 2020, state-issued mask mandates applied in 2,313 (73.6%) of the 3,142 U.S. counties. Mask mandates were associated with a 0.5 percentage point decrease (p = 0.02) in daily COVID-19 case growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.1, 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all) (Table 1) (Figure). Mask mandates were associated with a 0.7 percentage point decrease (p = 0.03) in daily COVID-19 death growth rates 1–20 days after implementation and decreases of 1.0, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.9 percentage points 21–40, 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after implementation (p<0.01 for all). Daily case and death growth rates before implementation of mask mandates were not statistically different from the reference period.During the study period, states allowed restaurants to reopen for on-premises dining in 3,076 (97.9%) U.S. counties. Changes in daily COVID-19 case and death growth rates were not statistically significant 1–20 and 21–40 days after restrictions were lifted. Allowing on-premises dining at restaurants was associated with 0.9 (p = 0.02), 1.2 (p<0.01), and 1.1 (p = 0.04) percentage point increases in the case growth rate 41–60, 61–80, and 81–100 days, respectively, after restrictions were lifted (Table 2) (Figure). Allowing on-premises dining at restaurants was associated with 2.2 and 3.0 percentage point increases in the death growth rate 61–80 and 81–100 days, respectively, after restrictions were lifted (p<0.01 for both). Daily death growth rates before restrictions were lifted were not statistically different from those during the reference period, whereas significant differences in daily case growth rates were observed 41–60 days before restrictions were lifted.
This looks a 95%+ confidence of less than 2% difference for the public when using masks. The tables at the bottom put this in graphical form. The rest of the report says these measures worked, I.E. in absolute terms, without going into if it is worth it or not, or to what degree. Even the increase after restaurants opened up is statistically significant, and percentage wise, low. A high probability of a low difference with so many unknown and uncontrollable variables, raises the question of if the difference is really there and what measures really work.
This makes sense, since most us walking on the street, going to the supermarket or restaurants are not practicing hospital level hygiene. Hospital workers are using N-95s, washing their hands, cleaning and sanitizing more than your local supermarket.
For most of us, many of these procedures don't do much and could be safely relaxed. For those 55 and older, or working in hospitals, or otherwise are at high risk, its a different story. High risk groups definitely need to take more precautions.
I did a year as a meat cutter out of high school.
My hands were constantly soaked in blood.
We didn’t wear gloves in those days.
I got warts on my hands that year but never had cracked skin.
After I quit I never got warts again.
Got an infected hangnail first time ever from all the hand sanitizing.
My hand crack in the winter already.
I walk by every sanitizer station without hesitation.
I don’t get sick.
My wife works in a hospital. She follows protocol religiously.
Sanitizes when she enters a patients room and when she leaves.
I imagine she uses sanitizer over a hundred times a day.
She also uses as lot of hand moisturizer.
After years of trying I finally got her to use Newskin liquid band aid. It works great at closing up cracked skin and promotes healing.
https://newskinproducts.com/products/new-skin-liquid-bandage/
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